oh, spicer also told reporters that the white house exhaustively investigated flynn after they receive that warning from the justice department according to white house lawyers concerned about mr. spicer's comments at the time, that was not true. they had not exhaustively investigated flynn after that warning. spicer also told reporters that trump administration lawyers had exhaustedly reviewed flynn's contacts with the russian government and the way he talked about it and concluded that there were no legal issues whatsoever surrounding what mike flynn had done and no being legally in the clear. according to the times today, all those concerns about what then became the white house public line about flynn's departure, white house lawyers wrote up a confidential memo detailing all of the lies that the white house was officially telling the public about mike flynn's departure from the white house, including the lie that the president fired him, that